SACRAMENTO – The latest proposal to end the state’s record-long budget stalemate failed in the Senate on Monday, leaving California without a spending plan more than two months into its fiscal year.

The Republican plan defeated Monday called for closing the state’s $15.2 billion deficit without raising taxes through spending cuts and borrowing from state lottery revenues.

After a 90-minute debate, 13 Republicans voted for the plan, with 21 Democrats opposed.

Six lawmakers, including four absent Democrats, did not vote.

The bill’s defeat comes after Republicans rejected a Democratic plan that included a

1 cent sales tax increase over three years to help close a $15.2 billion deficit.

The Democrats’ plan was similar to one proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Republicans said raising taxes would harm an already stumbling economy.

“Now is not the time to increase taxes on the people of this state,” said Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto. “We continue to be united around this fact that we think taxes are the absolute wrong way to go.”

Instead, Republicans proposed $1.6 billion in additional cuts beyond the $10 billion offered by Schwarzenegger and Democrats. They also advocated borrowing about $1.8 billion from state lottery proceeds.

Republicans have insisted on a spending cap and giving the governor authority to make cuts in the middle of the fiscal year.

Democrats said the cuts in the Republican plan were too deep. They also argued that borrowing from the lottery is likely illegal. Because the lottery was enacted by voters, any change might have to go back to the ballot.

In addition, borrowing money from the lottery delays the state’s fiscal problem into next year, Democrats said.

A previous Democratic budget proposal that advocated tax increases on the wealthy and corporations failed in the Assembly.